percentages of russian citizens or russian passport holders. russia has also pursued a policy since the mid to thousands of trying to hand out its passports in its neighboring states, to try to do it in specific regions. regions that border the russian federation. is a russian there speaking majority or a receptive population. the driver of russian military tactics. georgia, where russia would first hand out russian passports and then they would say, now we have to protect our citizens here. this is the one number that concerns me in estonia. narda.larly looking at we have 36% russian citizens in the city. this is a small city. i do not want to over dramatize it. we are referring to 23,000 people. nonetheless, given russia's history of how it has used passports in the past, this is one area where we have to be concerned. other risks in the economic sector. russia does not just export their natural resources or gas. the also export corruption. estonia has not been immune to that even though they do a lot of business with the european union. the

but i think yes like this lady in theater saying at russians in a stone and also russian said a lot to me as they have rights if you'll want to travel the same sense you have read you can go on and have all these things about janet almost no saying what's kind of impossible to do for them now and then there's the question of why is there done that and don't do this and it's kind of this historical perspective why else a bit of a variable be my answer when i think it's kind of on the dissolvable issue about integration because fifty years a lot to be aware and also estonia that under occupation by russia it was called soviet union so a lot to me and to be alike no one point one million people still in families to me no family members who were deported. that still exists offenses sad feeling so if you feel like like a lot to be and feel like we are under strict and we still see as this russian people here as occupiers not so much as liberators meanwhile russian people who there are generations who have been who be in. warnin lottie and say feel legs they add a lot to us people and there

and estonia has a significant russian speaking population and both ethic russians and russian speakers and i make that distinction, because i think it's important to note that we are not only talking about the ethnic minority but others that speak russian in their daily lives that also get targeted by the kremlin and whom the kremlin tries to co-opt in their various efforts. i will give you numbers here so you get a sense, but they are all in the book. ethnic russians in estonias 24% of the population. they make up 37% -- but if we look at one region, on the border of the russian federation, they make 73% here and 82% in the city of narva, it's a small city, again, with the russian federation border. these numbers are illustrateive and certainly the russian speakers and the russian minority in estonia is general ly very well integrated, especially the youth. they are happy to live in estonia which has the highest standard of living than any other country that was formerly a member of the soviet union. and in fact, you know, high standards of living in comparison to new eu member states

not the russians. if we want something done, it doesn't have to get done today or yesterday or tomorrow. they will wait 100 years. if you have something in mind, they wanted done. the chinese are the same way. they are very patient people. this is not out of the realm. this is something that is going on as far back as there has been the soviet. putin gave a quote, he still lives -- he looks like a modern man. he is a 1950's cruise ship. ruschev guy. guest: i think there is a sense of history and the russian leadership mind about where the trajectory of russia is. know that for putin in particular, he has had a longer rise than any person he has been given with. it does provide certain challenges. host: we welcome our c-span radio audience. edmonds ais jeffrey senior fellow at the wilson center. we will go next to chris joining us from kansas. caller: yes. the same want to take track as the last caller. except with a different point. the current russian government is not the soviet union. the soviet uni

(epic russian music) - [narrator] russian president boris yeltsin faced the task of implementing an array of political and economic reforms. the seeds of which had been planted by the soviet union's last premier, mikhail gorbachev. - [sachs] almost everybody was facing extreme uncertainty and alarm at a collapsed economy, empty shelves, high inflation and tremendous political turmoil. - then under the advice and guidance of western economists, western business leaders and western politicians russian started to implement what has been known as shock therapy reform. (mournful music) - [news reader] a chicken costs nearly two weeks' pay. only those with hard currency are assured of getting something. - [narrator] tens of thousands of state-owned enterprises had to be privatized, reshaping the entire russian economy. - [buchanan] it was seen as really something like the period of the 1870s, 80s and 90s in the united states with robber barons doing exceedingly well, and the people not doing well, and their standard of living falling. - [polyakova] each state enterprise was assigned a certain n

if the russian government stopped using chemical weapons to assassinate its enemies and if the russian government stopped helping it syrian ally to use chemical weapons to kill syrian children and if russia cooperated with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons by turning over all information related to this nerve agent we would stop talking about them we take no pleasure and having to constantly criticize russia but we need russia to stop giving us so many reasons to do so. russia must fully cooperate with the u.k.'s investigation and come clean about its own chemical weapons program. russia is a permanent member of the security council it isn't trusted in the united nations charter without poled ing international peace and security it must account for its actions if we don't take immediate concrete measures to address this now solsbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used. they could be used here in new york or in cities or of any country that sits on this council this is a defining moment in time and time again member states say they oppose the u

there is a lot of russian money, a lot of russian investment in london. it would be a good thing... adam says they would not because it's too essential to the british economy. yes, but then there are moments in which — take brexit, in which the national interest and the economy have come after other considerations. the moment there is an attack... i would have to say some people would disagree and that economic prospects under brexit will be fine, but go on. what ijust wanted to point out was if britain is under attack, a nerve agent used on british streets, is that more important or less important than economic interest? 0k, more for the uk to do, but what about the allies? that was the other point adam was making, everyone in europe needs to step up and support, everyone needs to step up and rally the wagons? there are views on the continent that actually what happened in salisbury is the continuation of a strategy from russia in dividing britain from its allies. the reactions have been very lukewarm, and this is for two reasons. one, that putin is on the rise in europe. there i

not the russian people. is it not increasingly clear that we are engaged in hybrid warfare with russia which includes disinformation, political interference, cyber attacks and now very possibly this act of attempted murder? in considering how to respond, will my right honourable friend also look at what additional help we might give to the people of ukraine, who are the front line in resisting russian aggression and expansionism? i thank my honourable friend and he is right, we need to look across the very diverse nature of the threat we face and the actions we are taking, and we have already been taking a number of actions in support of the ukraine, is also an important part of our deliberations and an important part of our response. everybody understands what is happening here today and there can be no criticism of the town the prime minister has adopted. she will know that under article four of nato, she can raise this as a concern with our nato allies, that she intends to do so? a5 allies, that she inten

state or that a russian military grade nerve agent that was under the russian state's control is no longer under its control and how did that frightening situation arise thank you very much from now on of the phillips now looking at some other stories we're covering today a rebel group operating in syria's eastern ghouta enclave says it's allowing wounded people to be evacuated. says it struck a u.n. brokered deal with the syrian government's ally russia it's the largest of three groups in the area where almost four hundred thousand civilians have been besieged since two thousand and thirteen more than a thousand people have died since the government offensive began three weeks ago when the last hour the u.n. secretary general antonio terraces address security council members he said the humanitarian situation is becoming more desperate in eastern guta by the day. in doomer relief workers were reach to reach the city last week described conditions a stocking and overwhelming people sheltering in overcrowded bodies most access to food water and sanitation limited and diversion to quo

to expel russian diplomats. told to fit in for a month long learning about the expulsions are expressed ostrom opposition to the move but i pointed out today there's not been a single shred of evidence of russia's involvement in this tragedy the most productive way to address this case would be a calm and professional investigation by the. will because it is not only the russian ambassador to the u.s. has expressed his outrage to the move but a number of has of other russian diplomatic missions in different countries lashed out at the use of recent expulsions. we believe the you shouldn't fall for this do. the group just provocation all the talk about to use solidarity is laughable as there can only be solidarity in the fight against real threats but not in support of dirty insinuations and over all we've heard from different high level officials here in russia expressing disappointment and even at times this believed to this recent move by the u.s. a number of other european countries to expel russian diplomats

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either a direct attack by the russian state against our country, or the russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent, and allowed it to get into the hands of others. this afternoon my right honorable friend, the foreign secretary, summoned the russian ambassador to the foreign and commonwealth asked asked him to explain who it is and how this russian produced nerve agent could have been deployed in salisbury against mr. skripal and his daughter. my right honorable friend stated that the russian federation muss immediately provide full and complete disclosure of the program to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, and he has requested the russian government's response by the end of tomorrow. mr. speaker, this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression. russia's illegal annexation of crimea was the first time since the second world war that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken at the from not a europe. worry ash fomented conflict, vote zoo lating the national air space

rights as the native russian population. during the german occupation of crimea in the second world war that status meant the car ads were largely spared the persecution that their fellow jews suffered during the holocaust . and says mobile killing units murdered almost all of the crimea's other jewish inhabitants the reemergence of a jewish community in the region is nothing short of remarkable. the fact that crimean jews recently acquired russian citizenship doesn't seem to bother anyone here on the contrary. the look on the one images that is mentally and spiritually we have always remained crim char we were never ukrainians nor were we ever russians we have always been crimean jews and i don't wish to say anything bad about ukraine but like others in the crimea it was as if we have been hung out to dry now legislation has been adopted to ensure that money's no longer siphoned off from crimea instead funds will be invested in regional development i get the feeling they are now pulling out all the stops to ensure that crim

leo tolstoy the patron saint of russian literature. the altar and the white fellow became a place to run devil for russian writers and intellectuals in crimea. in the winter of one thousand know one chekhov wrote to his future bride in moscow i'm absolutely fine apart from a petty little matter my health. in july nine hundred four check of died on a visit to the german spa town of biden viler. he was forty four years old. peace was to last for another ten years then war broke out and everything changed. developed focus coming to an end. to russia would soon be consigned to the annals of history. during the first world war stately homes in crimea were converted to military hospitals. then came the october revolution. lenin and the bolsheviks seized power in russia the revolution rolled across the country. crimean tatars proclaimed the people's republic of crimea. then the red army arrived in crimea became the town read a soviet republic. but the revolution had not yet triumphed. german troops occupied crimea followed by the british and

you better russian state that they have the right to aim at russian full of former russians but i still consider traitors outside the russian territory so certainly disease part of a content and content that has been existing now full more than four years and i think this is the big question now is how do we respond to it because clearly this is what the shit event and its cannot be seen as just a small or a tent it's a very significant one using us i definitely feel there are agents in the middle of the biggest city and daylight so i think now the real question is how robust but also a collective response will be from preachin but also the british nato and you're like ok we'll come on to the response in a little more depth in just a few moments but. just before we move on behalf of you heard what both matthew and fabrice were saying that about this overwhelming body of evidence against russia britain's foreign secretary said that russia's smug soft casting response to this incident indicates its fundamental guilt that they want to similar taney asli deny it yet at the same time glory i

of a former russian intelligence agency. that's despite police having no suspects to speak. of conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr. under the vienna convention the united kingdom expelled twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as intelligence.

he was a russian businessman who was found dead in 2013. nikolai glushkov had insisted that he had been murdered and it was the russian state that could be behind this. so that was one of the connections that police are now seeking to explore. they have also issued a warning to russian exiles living in britain. they are one of them about their safety in the wake of this death and the two poisonings in salisbury. charlotte, thank you. that was charlotte gallagher and kathryn stanczyszyn and richard galpin in moscow. let's look at this from another angle. with me now is the blogger kostya pinaev, who came to london 12 years ago from russia and can provide some insight now into the russian community here. what do we know about the expat community of russians in this country? there is a sense that they are all monied oligarchs, but i am sure that is not the reality. absolutely not. 99% of the russian expat community is very boring middle—class. by definition, in order to get here, you need to be middle class or above. so it's very boring but

anglo russian really. are already pretty strained at the moment given the britain's already imposed sanctions of expelled diplomats what could the u.k. do to punish russia well this is where there's a big opportunity one of the things which the u.k. has a huge leverage in one area which is that the russian government officials and kremlin connected oligarchy come to london buy properties in large sizes all over the most expensive districts of london and they value those properties they covet those properties and the one thing that can be done and is now possible to do based on the law is for the u.k. government to seize those properties and believe me the government doesn't care the russian government doesn't care about a few diplomats being expelled they don't care about an on on exercisable extradition of their officials what they care about is if if their house on belgrave square gets confiscated and that's what the government should do and if they do that it will go immediately right up to putin and pu

met with a russian lawyer. he was promised dirt on hillary clinton but maintains his father never knew about the meeting. the president said the same thing. nunberg disputes that, even though he was fired from the campaign nearly a year before the meeting. >> president trump says he knew nothing about the meeting. do you think that's true? >> no. >> you don't think that's true. >> no. >> reporter: nunberg says he won't cooperate with special counsel and questions the basis of the investigation. >> yes, mueller thinks trump is a manchurian candidate. gloria, we were a joke. everybody was laughing at us. the idea we were colluding with the russians? give me a break. >> reporter: also saying carter page is the real culprit when it comes to collusion. >> carter page was colluding with the russians? >> yes, i believe carter page was colluding with the russians. >> if that's true, sam, carter page was an adviser to the trump campaign. >> he wasn't really an adviser, jay. do you think he was an adviser? he was a name

to go tomorrow to the polls famous russian singers cold to their competitors to vote russian cosmonauts from space spoke on television local authorities organize some prize draws where people could do a small phone on another subject to devise also there was an unspeakable homophobic and x. in a four b. commercial on state television its message was if people in russia don't go to the polls and don't vote for their rights president or the so-called right president then dark skinned soldiers would serve in the russian army and to gays would infiltrate into private apartments as if that would be a big threat to russia ok so some scare tactics there but what does a low voter turnout mean for president putin. well look people in russia are traditionally very reluctant to vote it's a belief in democracy generally and in democracy democratic elections particularly is low it's not like the west or the you go to the polls to vote for your favorites the overwhelming majority of russians think the election isn't decided by the people but by those up there which means by the authorities so many of

day march that my russian befriend the phone secretary to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so if there is a consensus across the back bench is all this is how. i am really sorry that the consensus does not go as far as the right honorable gentleman. could have taken the opportunity as the u.k. government has done to condemn the culprits of the senior. russian embassy here in london has said that the steps taken by the british government are unjustified unacceptable and shortsighted also saying that they did deterioration of ties between russian and the u.k. lies on the british government and that ultimatums don't work with russia everything is what is. acceptable we perceive it to provoke each. we believe that the you know i do keep the full big international and none of them under this obligations to him. given the weapons they have to present their request to the organization and we're happy to consider this we didn't do the deed this is the international law and of course we're not ready to. to talk you know we will be ultimat

the backing of russia has the backing of iran iran has sent troops that have russian air power and russian political support at the un security council if two thousand and fourteen they were not ready to share power with an opposition that they didn't even recognize they're not ready to do that again and now and we're hearing even the syrian president say time and time again we're going to recapture the whole country but the question is recapturing the whole country is not going to be that easy because especially in the north of the country have the issue of the kurds you have the issue of turkish back to troops you know controlling some parts but like you mentioned what else than a did and after that salty is no longer on the table is the question of political transition it is no longer on the table at least for the pro-government alliance they're not ready to negotiate any transition or sharing power for that matter with the opposition zain thanks very much correspondent live there in. thousands of civilians are also leaving their homes and three in turkey's military closes in there peop

the target for killing russians in. the u.s. russian journalists. who are supposed to be protected the press is not supposed to be fired but she fired on them on purpose around the fire she was. clean that hero by ukraine has legal right to live here if she was a nationalist here and he wanted her back in ukraine she was exchanged by russia and became a deputy should we keep a member of the course and now she's moving to the west know she's going to their evil. their growth her because she's come out and publicly said she saw snipers enter with the speaker of the parliament and that fire marshal has given all of which have already said we want to destroy this man if you gentlemen we are talking about it because it's important people are talking about it in ukraine because it's important if anybody needs to any of us and i don't know if i want to be one talking about is that the ukraine just feet depends on what the west decides to do with it and what the west is going to look like in the next sixty years was going to change there it's obvious by the

the russians the russians will be pleased about it this is again part of the upside down world that we were talking about before you know in any way what do what does the government want i mean obviously russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world would be expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's at a political mess right now. she doesn't have a memorable time in office here she's found this one issue she's really pushing it here i mean coming to conclusions before facts are presented not ever to the public by the way here i mean you know what is you know is this an internal domestic issue for her i mean she's found this one issue the kind of booster a little bit because she needs a whole lot of boosting go ahead and. well i think as you say she's in a very weak political position. and she will be under pressure from l i six because bear in mind this guy worked as an agent to m i six for a decade and was handed back to them they had a duty of protection to their sourc

by the russian. government in order to say that they are doing something maybe it's me after i think. yes fire did continue their bombardment so international community were poor. and did they can't do anything with the matters of i mean of listening to you saying basically either the russians won't tolerate any military action in syria however the busses themselves seems to seem to be sending mixed signals they are the ones who indicated that is the whole there's going to be a part of the deescalation zone in the agreement but at the same time the breaking of the promises they made my opinion is. judgment about russian intervention is very important because in your russian intention. or on american. it depends on american intervention if american now demonstrate in the skull ation and the great mark for that. intention of the united states government is. delicate rex tillerson that we are headed about. a less than one hour igor. soldo means that some. yes a lot of good sense as it is where it was do

put in is very russian. there's a thing inferiority complex about how the west doesn't take us seriously they see as says the kind of retarded little brother that they can just kick and insult all the time they had been a great power. that was on par with the u.s. that was calling the shots all over the world and now people don't even listen to them. not only was the west not listening to russia it was also moving closer and closer to russia with its bases. in the summer of two thousand and twelve a civil war had been raging for over a year in syria an old ally of russia the opponents of president bashar al assad received weapons from europe and the us. there was no doubt in putin's mind that the west had ordered a regime change as it had done in two thousand and three in iraq and in libya where the deposed president won more gadhafi had just been killed. when vladimir putin got a hold of the video of khadafi being killed lynched in the streets. he watched that video on repeat he just watched over and over a

now, that said, obviously, there are areas where the russian economy can be hit 01’ where the russian economy can be hit or perhaps the close circle around vladimir putin can be hit. and that would be freezes or travel bans on the political and economic elite, and other sectors that are crucial to the russian economy, such as mining. they give very much -- thank you very much forjoining us, 0tilia dhand. now let's brief you some other business stories. consumer goods giant unilever could be set to abandon its uk headquarters in london in favour of rotterdam. according to sky news there will be a formal announcement later on thursday — but unilever has refused to comment. the anglo—dutch company has been reviewing its dual—headed structure since rejecting a takeover by kraft—heinz last year. toys r us has filed to wind down its us business and sell off or close all us stores after failing to find a buyer or reach a restructuring deal with creditors. up to 33,000 us workers could lose their jobs following the bankruptcy of the giant toy store chain — one of the largest ever in

it is up to the russians. it is up to the russians to guarantee the safety of england fans going to russia. it's their duty under their fifa contract to look after our fans. we will be doing everything we can in the front office to make sure that they have access to the best possible advice and there's updates on our beyond the ball website and we'll make sure they have that. we're watching it very, very closely. at the moment we are not -- we are not inclined actively to dissuade people from going because we want to hear from the russians what steps they're going to take to look after our fans. i want to hear from russia how they propose to look after uk nationals coming to the world cup. i'll just give you one interesting statistic. which is that so far the applications from england fans to go to russia for the world cup are about a quarter of what they were at this stage for the rio world cup, about 24,000 against about 94,000 for a comparable stage in the competition. so the numbers are well done. the numb

destructive russian. what is absolutely clear is i'm a full sort of god if you will you know the kingdom and our extreme concern about what has happened that is really acceptable. well while russia has been apparently guilty until proven innocent in this whole ordeal it looks like when it comes to individual culpability things are not so simple asks this weekend in an interview in the u.k. foreign secretary was johnson was asked about a donation made to the tory party of one hundred sixty thousand pounds by a wife of a former minister of lodgement putin to the conservative party for a tennis game apparently he seemed to indicate that some are equal but. some who are all are equal but some are more equal than others let's take a listen to what he said on that. lesson into evidence is produced against individual russians i do not think that the entire nation should be should be corrupt it's a difficult balance i absolutely it is very very important. well there's russia bashing continues to come from the u.k

we know from mueller that means investigating russian meddling and any kind of potential russian collusion with trump campaign officials. so that tells you that mueller is still very much looking into collusion, and he believes that rick gates could be an asset in that case. >> how is all this information coming to light now? >> reporter: part of the sources have been telling cnn. now also there is this case coming out, not in the manafort case, in the case of another lawyer that worked for manafort and gates pled guilty to lying to special counsel robert mueller. one of the things he lied about is rick gate's interactions with a russian intelligence operative. that individual is not named in the filing, but cnn has found out it was konstantin kilimnik. he says rick gates was in contact with this person throughout the presidential campaign and knew this guy was a russian intelligence operative when he was in touch with him. >> what is it that gates could know? what kind of information might he half -- he have had access to that mueller would be interested in? >> reporter: again, we looked

to expel russian diplomats. expressed a strong position to them i pointed out today that there's not been a single shred of evidence that russia's involvement in this tragedy the most productive way toward rest its case would be a professional investigation by the. russian ambassador to france also said that he is deeply disappointed with this move and also called it a provocation. we believe the you shouldn't fall for this dirty group just brought all the talk about to use solidarity is laughable as there can only be solidarity in the fight against real threats but not in support of insinuations. kremlin spokesperson we need to keep this call for called this unprecedented situation and said that the russian foreign ministry is at the moment studying the situation and drafting a list of possible actions and that draft or will shortly be presented to the russian president. putin you know what we are seeing now is unprecedented a from dreaming there's never been a case where a country is being accused of something

, russian meddling. that goes beyond allegations that somehow moscow tried to interfere in the us presidential election in 2016. also what is currently happening, that there is some spying and covert intelligence gathering that is taking place now. in recent weeks, there have been talks aboutjust the cyber attacks that have been taking place inside america, which have been blamed on moscow. those are cyber attacks that have specifically targeted american infrastructure. for example, power supplies. that has concerned here. as part of the action, the consulate in seattle will be closed, for a specific reason. it is because it is close to a submarine base in america, because it is close to the aerospace manufacturer boeing as well. that is sending a message to russia that there are concerns aboutjust what it is doing inside america as well as outside america. it must be said, when you look at the statements coming out of the white house, there are also talking about ukraine and also talking about syria. bu

said that it's ordering sixty russian diplomats to leave the country and that it's closing the russian consulate in seattle now this is the strongest and one of the few moves by president trump against russia and its president vladimir putin but we learned about it and this is important we learned about it in a statement no one from the state department is offering comment and nothing from president trump on his decision not even a tweet we'll discuss this silence in just a moment here is more on the history making expulsions today starting right here with berlin. at the russian embassy in berlin there's little sign off what's going on inside but behind the closed curtains for diplomats are clearing their desks berlin says it's responding not just to the attack on former russian double agent sergey screen pahl in the u.k. but also to the cyber attack on the german government's computer network. it wasn't an easy decision for us to expel the russian diplomats but the facts and evidence point to russia. investigators believe that x. intelligence officers pollin his daughter you leo were

and you start actually shooting at russians in syria and when you combine that with the russian hysteria. in in washington in london in other capitals then you've got a very serious situation and i think you're absolutely right peter when you said that putin is not one to rhetorical flourish he's not want to exaggerate to bloviate he's not donald trump so he has a very serious person and i think he was putting down a marker and say stop this now before it gets out of control because we mean business exactly if you carry on like this it is going to end badly you know mary in the over the years when they were before the negotiations with the iran nuclear deal the pentagon constantly was telling russia that all these in these anti-missile defense systems in poland and remain were many they have nothing to do with you it's all directed against iran and then when the deal is signed they actually admit that well we still have to keep them there is it because of russia well yes because ok i mean this is the kind of relations and partnership russia has with nato you can't believe what they say o

the russians the russians will be pleased about it this is again part of the upside down world that we were talking about before you know anyone what do what does the government want i mean obviously russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world would be expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's a political mess right now. she doesn't have a memorable time in office here she's found this one issue she's really pushing it here i mean coming to conclusions before facts are presented not ever to the public by the way here i mean you know what is you know is this an internal domestic issue for her i mean she's found this one issue the kind of booster a little bit because she needs a whole lot of boosting go ahead any. well i think as you say she's in a very weak political position. and she will be under pressure from l i six because bear in mind this guy worked as an agent and i six for a decade and was handed back to them they had a duty of protection to their source and th

against russian forces. on. this. one. a huge fire engulfed a shopping center in the russian city of qom are over sixty four people including many children are confirmed dead. but. if you mean who's the deeds to do. they didn't feel good movie rooms to students who need to move soupy do when the. this is easy to be good you can see it it's good to see it student. five have been arrested in connection with the tragedy russia's investigative committee says the building's emergency exits were blocked and that the fire lines were turned off. in other news a way. russian diplomatic expulsions are now by the u.s. and to more than a dozen european countries in a show of support to britain introduces russia of poisoning a double agent and his daughter moscow says it will respond. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our to international certainly glad to have you with us now we start with a tragedy in the city of in central russia sixty four people including many children are now known to have died i

gas arrives in slovakia it's not russian anymore it's european. a lot of it's also has financial benefits ukraine can purchase reimported gas from the e.u. more cheaply than from russia if the engineers at the control station insist they're fulfilling their contract with gazprom to the letter. when this person why a lot of safeguards but also we aren't using any russian gas is that this is the transit amount for the amount of transported gas is the outcome of all the gas that came into ukraine on the east also left it on the west. but also the wall it would doll in the hood of. the gas first passes through ukraine then each we imported but the reverse flow mechanism is noted europe will solution energy supplies are still a massive problem for ukraine. natural gas provides about a third of ukraine's energy needs russian gas arrives in through four pipelines and then continues on the road to the e.u. which part of it being imported team train. the north stream to pipeline would be a serious blow to the train in gas industry. the staff of the rivers

because they have been too dependent on russian money as germany is dependent on russian gas. we have been much too negligent with regards this imperialist power. expect thedo you british government to address this question of dirty or laundered russian money? haenow. think it might finally gemma: is the question of how do you deal with russia now? is the question of how do you deal with russia now? i think we will live with putin for the next six years, minimum. theink that we still need common policy on this where we can't only focus on incidents like this. we need also to develop a certain strategy, being cautious. seegreed on this and to certain dangers that are in government. with this black and white picture, we were not prepared enough. alan: it is not a black and white picture. purelyuld paint us as white, but it is a black picture when it comes to russian imperialism. gemma: but putin is not the center -- the whole of russia. alan: you just said he had something like 70% -- not quite soviet style, that would be 99%, because heuge, didn't have real opposition. gemma: w

by december 2015, the russian hacks had taken an aggressive turn. it would suggest that at least three separate russian cyber operations were under way simultaneously. one focused on stealing documents from the democratic national committee, a second to sew discord and division and to burrow into the infrastructure of american and european nations. and now from the "new york times," miss perlroth, thank you very much for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> first of all, this is technical stuff. i'm not technically minded. i will bet i got some of that wrong. can you tell me if i got anything important wrong or if the basics were correct? >> the basics were correct. did you a pretty good job there. we've been under attack by russia for a while. this was the first time the u.s. has come out and publicly named russia as the perpetrator on the attacks. the wolf creek nuclear plant was one of about a dozen that russia had targeted. today it actually included a screen shot that showed russian hackers have their fings are er the buttons here. if they wanted

by december 2015 the russian hacks took an aggressive turn. the attacks were no longer aimed at intelligence but potentially sabotaging or shutting down power plant operations that would suggest three separate cyber operations were underway. one focused on stealing documents from the democratic national committee and a second using social media to division and this third effort sought to burro into the infrastructure. joining us is nicole perlroth and covering this technical alert at the "new york times." thanks for joining us. appreciate you being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> first of all, this is technical stuff and i'm not that technically minded. i will bet i got some of that wrong. can you tell me if i got anything important wrong or if those basics were correct. >> the basics are correct. the point is we've been under attack by russia for awhile now. this is is the first time today the u.s. government has come out publicly and named russia as the perpetrator behind some of these pretty serious attacks on our critical infrastructure. last

a russian double agent former double agent and his daughter. hello i'm barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. school students stage a walkout across the u.s. in their push for tighter gun control us. residents to flee villages in syria's a free an enclave as turkish forces turn up the heat on fighters plus. it took a little longer than we thought but we did. democrat congressional candidate claims victory in a republican heartland but it's not over yet and how one t.v. reporters i roll stole the show a china orchestrated and you won't parliament session. hello thank you for joining us britain's government has announced a range of measures against russia in response to the nerve gas poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in southern england last week prime minister to resign may said the only conclusion was that the russian state is responsible she told parliament the u.k. will expel twenty three russian diplomats alleged to be on the cleared intelligence officers giving them a week to leave may said the u

a russian citizen well he's a russian citizen but you know the russians but he was handed in to britain as a result of exchange so why issued russia and in a manner that is of any importance or any value it's unimaginable so even if he's had it in so russia quits with him. he is of zero value of zero importance. go ahead so this is number one number two. words of president putin. where not as crazy as to is to even to think about something of that kind. before presidential elections and before such important event global event as. for the temperature. number three the first blaming. came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident a couple of hours after the accident where heard first blaming of russia that i likely russia was responsible of that murder of attempted murder. and now what we see we see words of experts and experts of organization four or four. p.c. w. . that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks is it contradictory yes it is. then well in general why russia well russia why to blame russia you know it's maybe it's a ver

against russian forces. again thanks using out international with me kevin tonight just ten twenty minutes past eight in the evening here in moscow of course the big story tonight the ongoing fallout from the sergei scriptural case and the latest big news on that today is that more than a dozen european countries as well as the united states and canada have announced a wave of expulsion of russian diplomats it's a show support for britain which blames moscow over the poisoning of the former double agent and his daughter earlier this month let's get the details from both sides of the atlantic talk to our correspondents polly boyd curran london medina coach over in moscow hope to get the view from washington d.c. as well but we'll start with london polly what's happening there bring us up to speed today. well donald turkey's the president of the european council he announced this collective response to russia a little bit earlier on saying that the e.u. agrees with the u.k.'s assessment that it was quote highl

tonight, telling more russian diplomats to leave. nato joins the mass expulsion of russians suspected of being spies. nato's secretary-general jens stoltenberg says that seven russians attached to the military alliance will be expelled. this follows the expulsions of more than 100 russian diplomats from 20 countries. also coming up, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify abobout an unprecedented data scandal. the british parliament summoned him to do to same, but he said thanks but no thanks. and russian president vladimir putin blames what he calls quote, criminal negligence for a shopping mall fire in siberia the left scores dead. but protesters are demanding answers amid rumors of a cover-up. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight, there is more fallout from a nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. london is accusing the russian government of masterminding the attack, which has left sergei and julia skripal fighting for their lives. 20 sovereign